A pipelined processor increases its performance by partitioning an instruction into several separate operation steps. Several instructions can be executed in the pipeline in different pipe stages at the same time. Because of the overlapped execution of instructions, the result of an instruction may be used before it is available. One way to solve this problem is to schedule instructions at compiler time, thus the codes generated will be free from interlocks. The scheduling algorithm presented by T. Gross (1983) and J. Hennessy and T. Gross (1983) had significantly reduced the pipeline interlocks. With some modifications to distinguish the conflict condition, the algorithm does better at the same cost.
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1990 ACM & IEEE the 23rd international symposium and workshop on Microprogramming and Microarchitecture(Micro-23), pp.143-148
